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Azure – Public preview: Rate-limit rules for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall
Protect applications from abnormally high levels of traffic with rate-limit rules on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway. Read More for the details.

GCP – Enter the Hardware-verse: Google hardware comes to life at Google Cloud Next
Imagine a world where you can see some of the most powerful hardware on the planet. Now imagine a place that combines high-performance hardware and interactive experiences together, for you to see, feel, and touch? When you come to Google Cloud Next, be sure to enter the Hardware-verse, our showcase area that brings experiences to […]

GCP – Improving sustainability with our Earth Engine and BigQuery connector
We are thrilled to announce general availability of a new feature that simplifies the export of tabular data from Google Earth Engine into BigQuery. Earth Engine and BigQuery share a common goal to make large-scale data processing accessible and usable by a wide range of people and applications. Earth Engine focuses on image (raster) processing, […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery: How Atlas AI helps build a more resilient future
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series showcasing our partners and their solutions that are Built with BigQuery. The footprint of humanity is evolving substantially – from climate change alone scientists estimate that more than 600 million people on the planet have already been stranded outside of habitats that best support life. Other […]

GCP – The Modernization Imperative (TMI): The beauty in boring
You have something in your pocket right now that possesses more computing power than spacecraft fifteen billion miles away from Earth. No, not your mobile phone — the key fob for your car! Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched in 1977, and forty five years later, these little rascals still work and send data back […]

GCP – Hallo Germany! Berlin-Brandenburg Google Cloud region is now open
The Google Cloud region in Berlin-Brandenburg is now ready for customer use, our second region in Germany, and our 12th in Europe. The Berlin-Brandenburg region serves Google Cloud customers with local cloud capacity to scale their workloads and satisfy important in-country disaster recovery requirements — and it is part of our plan to invest 1 […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora Global Database introduces Global Database Failover
Amazon Aurora now supports Global Database Failover, a fully managed experience for performing a cross-Region database failover to respond to unplanned events such as a regional outage. With Global Database Failover, you can convert a secondary region into the new primary region in typically a minute and also maintain the multi-region Global Database configuration. To […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 10.11 for up to 40% higher transaction throughput
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB major version 10.11, the latest long-term maintenance release from the MariaDB community. Amazon RDS for MariaDB 10.11 includes performance improvements that enable up to 40% higher transaction throughput than prior versions. You can deploy RDS for MariaDB 10.11 on RDS Optimized Read and Optimized Write enabled instance classes for […]

AWS – AWS PrivateLink announces support for user defined IP on VPC endpoints
You can now choose IP addresses for your AWS PrivateLink VPC endpoints. AWS PrivateLink is a fully-managed, private connectivity service that enables customers to share and access services including AWS services, third-party services, and internal enterprise services hosted on AWS in a secure and scalable manner while keeping network traffic private. Read More for the […]
GCP – What is Multimodal Search: “LLMs with vision” change businesses
What if large language models (LLMs) had “vision”, the ability to understand the meaning of images? Just like we have seen the innovation with LLMs with chatbots and text data, the ability would make another huge impact on businesses by letting LLMs look at and organize millions of images in enterprise IT systems. In this […]